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IV.—CAUSES OF SICKNESS.
The insufficiency of present methods for preventing- infectious
disease, in particular nan-notifiable diesases in infancy
and childhood, naturally results in enfeebled constitutions unable
at any time to combat any additional stress. The high number
of deaths from cancer, heart diseases, bronchitis, and the pneumonias
is evidence of this. The housing accommodation is inadequate,
and much misery and ill-health exists as a result of
this fact.
V.—SUM MARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS,
HOSPITALS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE
FOR THE DISTRICT.
Professional Nursing in the Home—
(a) General.—This is carried out in the Borough by the
King's Home for Nurses, who employ a staff, including the
Superintendent, of 12 trained nurses who attend at the houses
of the sick, at such times as are necessary, to carry out skilled
nursing.
(b) For Infectious Diseases.—Arrangements made between
the King's Home and the Borough Council for nursing selected
cases of infectious disease, the agreed working being as follows:—
1 Nursing assistance is granted under the Maternity and
Child Welfare scheme in cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal
Fever, Measles and German Measles, Whooping Cough,
Epidemic Diarrhoea and Polio-Myelitis.
One half of the money expended under this head is returned
by the Ministry of Health.
Except as regards Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Puerperal
Fever, no attempt is made to grant routine nursing assistance to
any but emergency cases; by emergency I mean that only where
representation is made by a member of my staff or by medical